Mover Mike

Here's another thing that's bugging my a-- today! The Chaiten Volcano is spewing ungodly amounts of crap into the atmosphere and no one knows when it will end. The Current Truth, with slight tongue in cheek, proclaims: Volcano Releases One Trillion Cow Farts Into Atmosphere. The IPCC is actually concerned with "Cow Farts". In Livestock a major threat to environment,

According to a new report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport. It is also a major source of land and water degradation.

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With increased prosperity, people are consuming more meat and dairy products every year. Global meat production is projected to more than double from 229 million tonnes in 1999/2001 to 465 million tonnes in 2050, while milk output is set to climb from 580 to 1043 million tonnes.

That means more cows and, you guessed it more cow farts.

Now here's where I go off the rails. In a new book "Climate Confusion" by Roy W Spencer, who has a PH.D. in Meteorology, hwe shows a well known chart of Atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory.

It shows that CO2 has been rising since 1960 from 315 parts per million to 380 parts per million in 2006. He puts that into perspective by writing that that is 38 parts per 100,000 and it rises by 1 part every 5 years.

Just suppose you are Obama's grandmother, a "typical white person". Let's assume she lives in a town of 100,000 people that includes 38 black people. Would she really be upset if every five years another black person moved in to her city? Should she be? Hell No!

Pardon me, but that's how ridiculous this whole global warming hoax is. Now, maverick John McCain has fallen for it.

Update:

What a day in The Oregonian. First, on the editorial page is The bear necessities, about the secretary of the interior, Dirk Kempthorne, listing the polar bear as an endangered species and this comment:

But there is now widespread consensus that polar bears are imperiled. And so yes, Kempthorne seemed to be saying, he recognizes that the bears' habitat is shrinking. And yes, climate change almost certainly is playing a major part in that.

NO IT"S NOT!

Recently in a new book titled Cool It by Jorn Lomborg, named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2004, Lomborg wrote about the polar bears:The Polar Bear Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union

...told us was that of the twenty distinct subpopulations of polar bears, one or possibly two were declining in Baffin Bay; more than half were known to be stable; and two subpopulations were actually increasing around the Beaufort Sea. Moreover, it is reported that the global polar-bear populastion has increased dramatically over the past decades, from about five thousand members in the 1960s to twenty-five thousand today, through stricter hunting regulation. Contrary to what you might expect-and what is not pointed out in any recent stories-the two populations in decline come from areas where it has actually been getting colder over the past fifty years, whereas the two increasing populations reside in areas where it is getting warmer.

... nowhere in the news coverage is it mentioned that 300 to 500 bears are shot each year...

Kempthorne's response might be, well we are looking down the road 45 years. Please, weathermen have a difficult time predicting the weather more than 10 days in advance.

A new, really surprising National Geographic survey says not very!

Mark Nelson has a wonderful little chart that shows how chilly it has been:

Number of 60 degree days from February through April.

Now I realize that this is just a small picture and it covers only the last five years, but it sure keeps me from getting excited about, sharp intake of breath, Global Warming!

A conservative Sacramento law firm, Pacific Legal Foundation, plans to join the fray over the fate of polar bears in anticipation of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife decision next week on whether the bears are endangered, according to the Sacramento Bee.

"This listing of the polar bear really isn't about the polar bear," said a foundation attorney. "This is a political ploy on the part of activist groups to try to hijack global warming policy from the hands of Congress and to put it into the hands of the courts."

It's about time someone challenged the idea that Polar Bears are threatened! (Hat Tip to ADN.com)

This was just announced in October, 2007.

Now some are having second thoughts. Why fellow Democrat Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said, "Our enthusiasm for corn ethanol deserves a second look. That's all I'm saying, a second look."

You're darn right it deserves a second look.

"Corn ethanol was presented as an almost Holy Grail solution," said Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa. "But I believe its negatives today far outweigh its benefits. ... We need to revisit this ... and back away from the food to fuel policy."

Update:

Maybe Bill Gates has seen the light:

Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates's investment arm sold 1.1 million shares of Pacific Ethanol Inc.'s stock from April 21 to May 2, according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday.

Oh, my! Isn't that an awful looking chart:

The Anchorage Daily News reports

A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming.

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The ruling is a victory for conservation groups that claim the Bush administration has delayed a polar bear decision to avoid addressing global warming and to avoid roadblocks to development such as the transfer of offshore petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast to oil company bidders.

I wrote back in February, 2007, that there is no problem in The Poor Polar Bears, Again!

The Bush administration should stop playing around with the truth!

I don't recall seeing this much snow at the beach.

Snow made spectacular sights in the winter of 2007 (photo Tiffany Boothe, Seaside Aquarium)

The Beach Connection, covering 180 miles of Oregon coast from Astoria to Florence, has pictures of the beach snow and reports about the impact on tourism.

Back in September of 2004 I posted about The Weather, It is a Changin' and referred to a book by Robert W. Felix entitled "Not By Fire But By Ice." I owned the book, but when I started to thumb through it, I didn't recall ever reading it.

The book refers to Felix's web site iceagenow.com . Climate Patrol.com has a video of Felix making a presentation in Coeur de Alain in March of 2007. This sure runs counter to Al Gore's claims:

Update:

From the AP in The Oregonian, Snow could slow campground openings.

Many campgrounds in eastern Washington and northern Idaho will be opening later than usual because of heavy snow and a cold spring...

Some sites may not open by Memorial Day, the traditional start of the heavy camping season and snowdrifts could block access to lookout towers well into July.

And they're still getting more snow. One ranger station had "12 feet of snow last week, four times the typical amount for this time of year."

Some scientists worry about the "albedo effect" The classic example of albedo effect is the snow-temperature feedback. If a normally clear area is snow covered, the area cools and the snow doesn't melt, the albedo increases, less sunlight is absorbed, and the temperature tends to decrease. The converse is true.

Continuing the theme of the previous post, The National Post announced

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

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China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century.

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.

The Calgary Herald has an article outlining a similar experience to Wallowa Lake: Record low water levels at Montreal Harbour, now with the heaviest snowpack in years, there are high hopes for the spring melt to raise water levels in the harbor and the Great Lakes. However, the worry is a cool spring stops melt and the snow just evaporates.

Wallowa Lake is a perfect morainal lake, which means it was formed by a glacier (about 9 million years ago). The lake is 5 miles long, and a mile wide, with a depth of 283'.

Wallowa Lake has a problem and the problem may have a negative effect on the community surrounding the lake and farmers dependent on the waters for irrigation. The problem: Wallowa Lake is frozen!

The condition of this glacial lake at a 4,300 feet elevation typifies something that worries farmers, ranchers and county officials across much of eastern Oregon: Snowpacks aren't melting, storage reservoirs aren't refilling, and chilly spring temperatures have delayed the growing season.

Many other lakes that should be opening for fishing have the same problem; "popular Diamond Lake in southern Oregon", and only a handful of lakes in central Oregon will be open.

In addition to the lakes staying frozen, the water content of the state snowpack is averaging 185% of normal for this time of year.

"It has been gaining; it hasn't been melting," (Jon Lea, a hydrologist with the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service) said of the snowpacks, which ordinarily would be sending millions of gallons of spring runoff frothing downstream into storage reservoirs.

We know the global warming wackos tell you that glaciers are melting everywhere and the big danger is that melting in Greenland and Antartica would raise sea levels. The Wallowas may be telling us that the trend is cooling not warming. Not only have we seen record snow levels in many parts of the U.S. and Canada, but the Nisqually glacier on Mt. Rainier is actually growing. If all the ice melt is taking place as the global warming fanatics tell us is happening, shouldn't we see the sea levels rise?

Grey Canada carried a chart showing sea levels for the last 24,000 years. It shows that sea levels started rising 22,000 years ago and plateaued 7,000 years ago. Glaciers stop growing, then melt and sea levels rise. Water vapor comes off the ocean, rises and makes snow, the snow packs build, the sea levels fall and we go into an ice age. The last ice age ended 11,500 years ago. IMO, Wallowa Lake and the heavy snowpacks are telling us that the next ice age has begun.

From the Tampa bay Online edition

The experts are again predicting the possibility that hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin will be above average during the 2008 season.

Hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.

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“Everyone should realize that it is impossible to precisely predict this season’s hurricane activity in early April,

But...Al Gore is capable of predicting the future 50 years out!

Hurricane Mover Mike

General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz dismisses global warming as a "total crock of s---,"

Say what you mean and mean what you say. Can we get Bob Lutz to run for President?

Bob Lutz Global Warminge Mover Mike

I have been watching with interest the severe weather taking place in China. This note finally caused me to post something:

The freak weather has even carpeted the arid Taklamakan desert in far-western China with snow. 'NEVER BEFORE had the whole desert been covered.

How bad is it in China?

More snow and sleet were forecast across the south, where three weeks of storms have destroyed crops, damaged electricity lines and disrupted the transport system. Severe weather conditions have been forecast to continue nationwide until February 8th or 9th. Much needed warmer temperatures are unlikely even after the snowfall ends. UNUSUAL blizzards, rain and harsh weather have thrown the rail and road traffic into a tailspin, with millions of passengers stranded. The cold spell has caused a loss of 7.5 billion dollars. Disruption in rail and road traffic has affected the supplies of coal to power plants whose stocks are depleting fast, adding to the worries of authorities. In central province of Zhejiang, a snowstorm lasted 30 hours, causing snow accumulations of RECORD DEPTHS. 19 provincial regions were hit, affecting nearly 78 million people as of January 28. For the FIRST TIME IN 135 YEARS the economic hub of Shanghai posted a yellow snowstorm alert on Saturday and by this morning, it had received 15 cm of snow. The Shanghai port at the mouth of the Yangtze river was closed as of 1:00 a.m. on Saturday, which stranded more than 1,000 ships and cancelled the departures of 200.

Boy, don't you wish for some of that Global Warming?

From AHN,

Lake Paliastomi

Russians are bracing for temperatures of as low as minus 55 degrees Celsius (minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit) in Siberia.

[...]Bloomberg reports that worst hit will be the Siberian region of Evenkiya, while neighbor Georgia, whose climate is subtropical, already plunged to as low as minus 35 degrees Celsius. Lake Paliastomi in the western Georgia froze for the first time in 50 years, reports Rustavi-2 television.

It's been a nice warm 50 years, now we return to normal.

Russia Lake Paliastomi Mover Mike

Have you noticed?

In Kansas -Dec 28, 2007 "Last year, we had the snowiest January on record," said Robb Lawson, meteorologist for the National Weather Service. "This year, we have had one of the snowiest Decembers on record."

Toronto - Dec 17, 2007 "The city received a dumping of 26 centimetres on Sunday, just missing a 44-year-record for snowfall in one day."

Denver - Jan 1, 2008 "The two storms that hit Denver between Christmas and Dec. 27 made the month the sixth-snowiest since records began in 1872, the Weather Service reported."

Lufkin, TX - The number 1 story for 2007 "An abnormally strong cold front from Canada met moisture in the air over the eastern part of Texas on Easter weekend, forming snow which was likely the latest-ever snowfall in Lufkin as kept by National Weather Service records."

Silverton, CO - Dec 10, 2007 Silverton gets record snowfall

Michigan - Jan 2, 2008 "The national Weather Service says it's the region's heaviest New Year's Day snowstorm on record and unusual for its intensity and short timeframe."

Twin Cities - December 2007 was the 12th-snowiest on record.

Columbia, MO - Dec 15, 2007 "It was already a record snowfall for Dec. 15, according to Scott Truett, senior forecaster with the National Weather Service in St. Louis. The previous record of 3 inches was set in 1987."

Boston - Dec 27, 2007 "The city of Boston is just one inch shy from the snowiest December ever."

Manchester, N.H - Jan 5, 2008 "...New Hampshire just broke the record for the snowiest December ever recorded. The state got 44.5 inches of snow this month compared to 43 inches in 1876."

Wausau - "The winter storm passing through central Wisconsin dumped at least nine inches of snow in the Wausau area Sunday, breaking a record of 6 inches total snowfall for the same day in 1933."

Winter has just begun!

You say Greenland is melting faster than even the most die-hard glabal warmist could have imagined? Turns out there may be a volcano under the ice.

Scientists have discovered what they think may be another reason why Greenland 's ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth's crust is enabling underground magma to heat the ice.

They have found at least one “hotspot” in the northeast corner of Greenland -- just below a site where an ice stream was recently discovered.

It's pretty hard to see through 2 miles of ice!

Greenland Hotspot Mover Mike

It's as if I'm getting a message from John Galt!

Two years ago I posted What is Zero Point Energy? Based on that I post I received a nice email from Mark Goldes, Chairman & CEO of Magnetic Power Inc. He said

The company is developing technology it calls Magnetic Power ModulesTM. Based upon breakthrough discoveries in MPI’s labs, Magnetic Power Modules are being designed that operate continuously, without fuel, extracting electricity by converting abundant, renewable, Virtual Photon Flux (VPF), an energy source that exists everywhere in the universe. The process will create no pollution. The cost of electricity is estimated to be less than 1 cent/Kwh, significantly less than any competing form of power generation today or in the foreseeable future.

Today, I posted that Oil closing in on $100! There in the comment section is a comment from Mark Goldes of MPI Inc. If what he says is true, his news is too important to be merely a comment.

Goldes basically in the first part of his post talks about "peak oil", that demand is outstripping supply and that will lead to much higher prices for energy. Then he gets involved in what I call the claptrap of (gasp) global warming and all the dire predictions. I am not interested in that stuff. The first part I believe to be true and the second part is a hoax, more on that in another post. What really caught my eye and deserves your attention is the update on

A revolutionary new technology, GENIE™ (Generating Electricity by Nondestructive Interference of Energy) is being developed at Magnetic Power, Inc. (MPI).

Within a year, a compact, 1,000 watt, self-sustaining, GENIE generator is a goal.

MPI has dedicated more than 20 years of research and development into exploring breakthrough technologies. To reverse the trends discussed above, MPI envisions a technological revolution, developed commercially, that has limited impact on available planetary resources. GENIE is projected to be easy to manufacture and use, as well as inexpensive, thus capable of rapidly achieving global impact.

Based upon proprietary breakthrough discoveries in MPI's labs, GENIE generators are being designed to operate continuously, without fuel, extracting electricity by converting an energy source that exists everywhere in the universe. This process creates no pollution. The cost of electricity is estimated to be significantly less than any competing form of power generation, today or in the foreseeable future.

GENIE generators with no moving parts can be made in many of the world's electronics factories. Household units will produce power 24/7. Larger units will replace automobile engines. GENIE will eliminate any need for fuel to run a vehicle. It can also allow future cars to become income producing power plants when parked.

GENIE is a magnetic device. Nobel physicist Werner Heisenberg once stated: "We could utilize magnetism as an energy source". Hans Coler demonstrated a 6 Kilowatt, solid-state, magnetic "space-energy receiver" in Germany during 1937. It was destroyed by an Allied bomb during WWII. The invention was confirmed by British Intelligence after the War. However, at the time, there was no comprehension as to the source of the energy. Coler wrote: "These fundamental researches…have made the first real and large breach in the citadel of present scientific belief."

Advanced GENIE prototypes are currently being constructed by MPI. Lee Felsenstein, EE, evaluated an early proof-of-concept prototype. He felt it to be analogous to the first examples of the transistor, which eventually led to a Nobel Prize and the creation of Silicon Valley (and similar high-tech complexes throughout the world). Within a year, a compact, 1,000 watt, self-sustaining, GENIE generator is a goal. A plug-in hybrid car, with a pair of these GENIE prototypes replacing any need to plug-in, will herald the beginning of an end to the need for fuel. Within two or three years, the first example of a larger GENIE generator, the size of a car’s fuel tank, might readily demonstrate the potential to replace any need for a fuel-burning engine.

Think of that! MPI may have a device that will generate 1000 watts which is the equivalent of a portable 1kW (Kilowatt) emergency generator.

The generator may initially measure 5”x5”x16”. A pair of these GENIE prototypes will eliminate the plug from a plug-in hybrid car.

The MPI Executive Summary pdf has this to say about our old friend Nikola Tesla

For many years, only visionaries like Nikola Tesla recognized this huge reservoir could be a source of usable energy. Tesla, the genius who gave birth to alternating current, said in a talk to electrical engineers in 1891: "Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. …Throughout space there is energy.” A growing number of scientists and engineers consider it possible to tap energy from space for practical use.

This is a time to be optimistic about our future, about the availabilty of energy and man's ingenuity. I pray MPI is successful and the Genie arrives quickly. Right now the world may need cheap energy.

Mark Goldes Magnetic Power Modules Zero Point Energy

So, here's a question. I will grant based on research from Mauna Loa and the South Pole that CO2 levels are rising. In fact,

Precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 at the South Pole have been obtained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) researchers since 1957. This record is based primarily on biweekly flask sampling. The SIO CO2 record from the South Pole shows that annual-fitted averages of atmospheric CO2 concentrations rose from 314.78 ppmv in 1958 to 374.61 ppmv in 2004. This represents an average annual increase of 1.3 ppmv per year.

The Mauna Loa record shows a 19.4% increase in the mean annual concentration, from 315.98 parts per million by volume (ppmv) of dry air in 1959 to 377.38 ppmv in 2004. The 1997-1998 increase in the annual growth rate of 2.87 ppmv represets the largest single yearly jump since the Mauna Loa record began in 1958. This represents an average annual increase of 1.4 ppmv per year. This is smaller than the average annual increase at the other stations because of the longer record and inclusion of earlier (smaller) annual increases.

I have included the information so we know that Mauna Loa is not a fluke, like some have suggested, measuring CO2 from the top of an active volcano. This is the famous chart we have all seen from Mauna Loa research:

and this chart incorporates the Mauna Loa data and goes back to 1820:

Now notice around 1940 and 1820, CO2 levels rose sharply, just as today. We are currently at approximately 380 PPM, 1940 it looks like about 425 PPM and about the same for 1820. And there was a rapid rise to the high level, again just like today. The advocates of global warming look at the Mauna Loa numbers and see only bad news. How is today unlike 1940 and 1820? Also, please explain to me why Oregon had some of the worst winters in my lifetime in the 1940s when CO2 was so high? Can we infer from this brief history that high CO2 levels will again lead to bad winters? Someone help me out! What's different this time?

Rising CO2 Levels Global Warming Mover Mike